Leif Wenar (King's College, London), "Clean Trade in Natural Resources"
Activity
Countries that gain a significant proportion of their revenues from exporting natural resources such as oil, gas, metals and gems are at higher risk for authoritarian governance, corruption, civil conflict and slower growth. The talk explains how familiar policies of resource-importing states…
Holly Smith (Rutgers), "The Moral Clout of Reasonable Beliefs"
Other
Because we must often make decisions in light of imperfect information about our prospective actions, the standard principles of objective obligation must be supplemented with principles of subjective obligation (which evaluate actions in light of what the agent believes about their circumstances…
Peter Cane (ANU), "Law, Morality and Normative Conflict"
Other
Sometimes the terms ‘moral’ and ‘morality’ are used in contrast to ‘immoral’ and ‘immorality’ to distinguish normatively between right and wrong, good and bad, virtue and vice. On the other hand, they may also be used descriptively to distinguish between different aspects of social life and…
Ken Gemes (Birkbeck), "Probability and Confirmation"
Other
Abstract: What is the relationship between probability and confirmation? Carnap and modern Bayesians, among others, have claimed that confirmation should simply be identified as probabilistic favourable relevance. In other words, evidence e confirms hypothesis h if and only if the probability of…